| Scripture |
Expanded Comments | Additional Comments |
| |
| |
| 1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
|
Verses 1-10 are clearly about the Prince of Tyrus, the Pope.
Verses 11-19 are about the King of Tyrus, Satan.
Verses 20-24 are about Zidon. Tyre (Tyrus) and Sidon (Zidon) are coupled together by our Lord Jesus several times in the New Testament. - Suggestion: As Tyrus pictures Christendom (and especially the union of the Catholic church with the state) Zidon may picture Protestantism.
Verses 25 and 26 are about Jacob, natural Israel. |
| 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: |
Prince of Tyrus – Verses 1 to 10 give an exact description of the Pope of Rome, who is Satan's vicegerent on earth. R1237:1*[R1237*]
Tyre represents the kingdom of Satan. R1237:1*[R1237*]
|
Son of man – Pastor Russell as the earthly mouthpiece of the Returned Son of Man our glorified Lord Jesus. See son of man.
Prince of Tyrus – The Pope. |
| 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: |
Than Daniel – Whose great wisdom is thus acknowledged by Ezekiel, Daniel's contemporary. R3630:3
|
|
| 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: |
|
|
| 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: |
|
|
| 6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; |
|
|
| 7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. |
|
|
| 8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. |
|
|
| 9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou art man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. |
|
|
| 10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. |
|
|
| |
| |
| 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
|
|
| 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. |
The king of Tyrus – Symbolizing Satan. R3187:2*
Verses 11 to 19 give a description of Satan. R1237:1*[R1237*]
|
King of Tyrus – Satan. This shows the true relation between Satan (king) and the Pope (prince.) |
| 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. |
|
Thou – Satan.
Hast been in Eden – As recorded in Gen. 3. |
| 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. |
Anointed cherub – Satan was created an angel of a very high order. OV298:2[OV298]; R3187:2*
|
Anointed cherub that covereth – A cherub is an extremely powerful angel. Remember on the ark of the covenant were two cherubs picturing love and power. The Ark too was anointed (Exo. 30:26). In that symbolic picture the two cherubims (attributes of love and power) spread their wings and covered the ark. Exo. 25:20. |
| 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. |
Iniquity was found – Then estrangement from God becomes rapid. OV298:3[OV298]
|
|
| 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. |
Mountain of God – Kingdom of God. A318[A318]
Covering cherub – Of the highest order of angels, glorious and beautiful. OV15:3[OV15]; SM95:1; Q826:T
|
|
| 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. |
|
|
| 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. |
|
|
| 19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. |
|
|
| |
| |
| 20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
|
|
| 21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, |
|
|
| 22 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. |
|
|
| 23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
|
|
| 24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. |
|
|
| |
| |
| 25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
|
When I shall – Very shortly to be brought to pass, and is even now beginning to be fulfilled. R1630:2
|
|
| 26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God. |
Executed judgments – Under the righteous reign of "The Christ" before the great "white throne" of truth. R541:5*
|
|